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    An unaccountable mass: bothersome matter and the humorous life of forms
    CROWEST, SARAH ( 2012)
    This PhD articulates a range of strategies for engaging with sculptural processes, materials and philosophical concepts that address notions of intuition, not-knowing, excess, and humour. It approaches matter as vital and dynamic through the terms of the practice in which recuperated materials transform, agglomerate and de-form in order to bring about that which is unforseen. Large, mutating and small clustering sculptures – caught in a stage of intensification that appears as arrested development – came together for the exhibition the inexplicable magnetism of an alien object, with a series of photo-images tracking the variations of form as snapshot views that picture transition. Immersion in processes of making and unmaking produce an encounter with materials which effectively positions knowledge-production as a process which is fluid. There is an associated and inherently ethical dimension to this PhD which not only encompasses the notion of the studio and practice as ecosystems, but also demonstrates an ethics of not-knowing. This is manifest through a practice that refuses mastery over objects and materials and understands matter as always already situated within a series of processes and contexts. The thesis' contribution to knowledge is to reclaim and reposition an intuitive approach to sculptural practice to include other strategies and processes that are responsive to the provocations of materials and the temporal qualities of form.